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18TH-CENTURY MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLE. UPDATE: THIS MADE €1,300 AT HAMMER
This 18th century console table with gadrooned rectangular top comes up at Sheppards Gems in the Attic sale on February 4. The estimate is €1,500-€2,500. The auction is on view in Durrow from February 1. There are 667 lots in total and the catalogue is online.
A day at the Races, 1885 style. UPDATE: THIS MADE 170 AT HAMMER
Dunville’s Whiskey, Capstan cigarettes, Fry’s Chocolate, Guinness toucans and Mick McQuaid plug tobacco advertisements are among the nostalgia generating lots on offer at Victor Mee’s Collector’s Collection sale online sale on January 28 and 29 at 6 pm on each day. More than 1,400 lots from an Ireland that is all but gone but still intensely familiar will come under the hammer. Sales of memorabilia, even those from beyond living memory like an 1885 Great Northern Railway advertisement for a special train to Baldoyle Races, remain enduringly popular. UPDATE: DATE CHANGED TO FEBRUARY 4 AND 5.
Aidan Foley will offer this Bentley at Ashford auction. UPDATE: THIS MADE 26,000 AT HAMMER
Not every kitchen clear out yields a Bentley, the bronze front doors once at Harrods and lithographs by Miro, Picasso and Dali. But Ashford Castle is not your average kitchen and all these lots will be included in Aidan Foley’s online auction of contents from the kitchens and lodge there on January 20 and 21.
The luxury hotel is carrying out a refit. Among masses of catering equipment and rare once off collectibles is a pair of plate glass doors in their bronze surround originally at Harrods. The large doors were acquired for Ashford Castle as part of a scheme that was never realised. Each one is a single plain glass panel.
The Bentley is estimated at €10,000-€20,000 and there is significant interest in it already. There is a Porsche too. A selection of around 50 lithographs by Miro, Picasso and Dali will whet the appetites of collectors. Around 700 lots will come under the hammer. The catalogue is online and the auction is on view for three days from January 17 in Cong, Co. Mayo at the Old Mill just outside the back gate of the castle.
A Miro woodcut from Ashford Castle. UPDATE: THIS MADE 220 AT HAMMER
An 1882 Patek Philippe lady’s watch UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,000 AT HAMMER
The sale on January 13 by RJ Keighery in Waterford, home of the Irish Museum of Time, will include a lifetime collection of over 300 clocks and watches Among them is a Patek Philippe lady’s watch specifically made for a client in 1882 with its original receipt (€2,000-€4,000), a Waterford c1770 longcase clock by Thomas Cahill (€2,000-€3,000), a triple fusee bracket clock (€1,000-€1,500) and longcase clocks made in Dublin, Kilkenny, Antrim, Leeds, Lewes and elsewhere.
There are wall clocks, bracket clocks, mantle clocks, Vienna clocks and even a Black Forest mid 19th century cuckoo and quail clock with its original weights (€300-€500).
The sale will feature over 80 original and once very familiar enamel signs redolent of bygone days advertising everything from Murphy’s Cork Stout and Porter to Fry’s Cocoa, Player’s Please, Will’s Woodbine and St. Bruno Flake. A vintage Thomas Edison phonograph with a cylinder is estimated at €400-€600.
Sir Max Beerbohm – Portrait of Oscar Wilde. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £22,680
The refined and engaging collection of Barry Humphries (1934-2023) – best known for his characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson – comes up at Christie’s in London on February 13. Driven by knowledge, passion and curiosity his collection was built over more than half a century.
Sand Dunes, Ambleteuse by the Australian painter Charles Conder leads an auction of 250 lots with estimates from £200 to £300,000 (€240 to €360,000). The best of fin-de-siecle decadent literature features a collection of Oscar Wilde related material including a presentation copy of The Importance of being Earnest. There is a selection of 19th century European and Symbolist art with work by Khnopff, Delville and von Stuck. These feature along with examples of Impressionism and modern British art, Modern Design and highlights from Dame Edna’s personal collection from costume and glasses to caricatures.
UPDATE: THE COLLECTION MADE £4.6 MILLION WITH BIDDERS FROM 41 COUNTRIES.
Charles Conder – Sand Dunes, Ambleteuse. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £239,400
View of the some of the selection on offer
Nearly 300 clocks from one collection will come under the hammer at Keighery’s auction in Waterford on January 13. This lifetime collection from a single estate (a bungalow) offers an impressive array of vintage and collectible clocks from prestigious Irish and English makers. Assembled over the decades it comprises 200 antique wall clocks, 28 longcase clocks, mantel clocks and pocket watches. The most expensively estimated is a lady’s Patek Phillippe watch in 18 carat gold specifically made for a client in 1882 with the original receipt (€2,000-€4,000). A c1770 longcase clock by Thomas Cahill, Waterford is estimated at €2,000-€3,000. Many lots have low estimates. Among them are a single fusee wall clock by Mangans of Cork (€250-€350), a Victorian paper mache clock with pendulum (€120-€180), a Dublin longcase clock in Chippendale style (€800-€1,200) and a marble clock and barometer retailed by Davis and Sons, London (€300-€500).
The sale includes more than 80 original advertising signs and the catalogue, with 470 lots in total, is online. Thomas Keighery said: “There is a great interest in this particular auction, we can see a new cohort of bidders from all across the world. We have bidders registered from the UK, France, and the USA all across Europe. We have bidders from all across Ireland and we are expecting a full house next Monday in Waterford – home of the Irish Museum of Time.”
Jeff Beck’s iconic 1954 Oxblood Gibson Les Paul guitar will lead the auction of his collection at Christie’s in London on January 22. The multi Grammy award winning artist worked with artists like Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, BB King, Nile Rodger, Carlos Santana, Stevie Wonder, Imelda May and Johnny Depp. He was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The auction comprises over 130 guitars, amps and accessories from a career that lasted almost six decades, since joining The Yardbirds in 1965 to his last tour in 2022. The Oxblood is estimated at £350,000-£500,000 (€421,380-€601,970) and estimates are from £100 (€120) up.
UPDATE: THE GUITAR SOLD FOR £1,068,500, double the high estimate and a new world record for a Gibson Les Paul.
WHITE MARBLE INLAID CHIMNEY PIECE
This white marble chimney piece of inverted breakfront design features at Mullen’s classic and contemporary interiors timed online auction at Laurel Park, Bray, which runs until January 5. The estimate is €2,500-3,500. There are 653 lots on the catalogue with 208 lots of furniture and 66 lots of art. The top furniture lot is a circular Chinese rosewood inlaid table (€3,000-4,000).
19th century padauk gallery back side table. UPDATE: THIS MADE 550 AT HAMMER
This profusely carved 19th century padauk side table with gallery back comes up at Sean Eacrett’s timed New Year auction which runs until January 5. The estimate is €500-€800. It is lot 737 in a sale of more than 1,300 lots which includes Lady Lavery £100 notes, furniture, jewellery, Oriental rugs, art and collectibles. The catalogue is online.
GEORGE II CORK SILVER JUG. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600 AT HAMMER
Watches, jewellery and a Cork silver jug are among feature lots at Hegarty’s live online auction on January 8. A total of 350 lots, among them this c1750 cream jug by George Hodder (€2,400-€3,400) will come under the hammer. A yellow gold acquamarine and diamond ring and a diamond and ruby cluster ring are each estimated at €2,500-€3,500 and the sale will feature some antique furniture, art, silver and collectibles.
